dancers donned ponchos in herald square, practicing their routines in the rain. but high winds are threatening to take the air out of the larger-than-life balloons that parade down broadway for the first time in more than 40 years; characters like snoopy and spongebob squarepants might be grounded. officials plan to make that call early tomorrow. for the latest on the storms and how they are affecting holiday travel, we turn to bernie rayno, senior meteorologist at accuweather. bernie, as far as late fall, early winter stoorms go, how big is this one? >> it's a big storm, certainly, but certainly storms we have seen in the past and typically these kind of storms produce mostly rain along the east coast with the snows across interior parts of pennsylvania be and new york state, and that's certainly what we've had with this storm. unfortunately, this storm occurred on the worst possible day, that being the busiest travel day of the year. >> ifill: so the busiest travel day of the year, in pretty big transportation corridors. where is it hitting hardest? we're talki